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Man, can't believe how much hassle this has been!! Got some EMG X's to try out in my fortress a couple of days ago, still havn't actually heard them yet!
So, the pickups come with a circuitry that can be installed 'without a soldering iron', but unless you've got routing holes big enough to fit a train down the little plugs aint gonna fit through, so then you need to cut them off....and then you need the soldering iron...which i don't have. As many of you know, I'm not the most talented guy with a tool kit, so I played around with the other wires, plugging the little plugs in to the little sockets, got a little carried away with the screw driver and the wire cutters and eventually decided that, having made what i thought was a fairly decent effort, i would leave the last few bits of soldering to my good friend Andy, who does have a soldering iron and knows what to do with it.
When I showed him what I had done he told me to never try to install anything ever again....apparently i had made a complete hash of it and we basically had to rip the whole thing out and give it another go. A couple of hours later (during which time i did nothing productive, but still somehow managed to burn myself playing with the soldering iron and an old pickup pot) we had some sound from the pickups but the pots that weren't doing anything. Tried a few other things before eventually turning to the internet, only to discovered that the instructions we needed were not included in the little manual that came with the pickups! Anyways with the internet instructions memorised Andy did the rest of the wiring bits and we were ready to go....except that the pickup screws included with the EMG's don't fit the Fortress.
No worries, I thought, i'll just get home, use the old screws and all will be good. Except the old screws are so rusted that I can't get them back in cause the screw driver has smoothed out the head of the screw so much it won't turn. So now i gotta go find some new pickup screws, hopefully tomorrow. Then, maybe, I'll be done!!
Hope you all enjoyed my little rant
So, the pickups come with a circuitry that can be installed 'without a soldering iron', but unless you've got routing holes big enough to fit a train down the little plugs aint gonna fit through, so then you need to cut them off....and then you need the soldering iron...which i don't have. As many of you know, I'm not the most talented guy with a tool kit, so I played around with the other wires, plugging the little plugs in to the little sockets, got a little carried away with the screw driver and the wire cutters and eventually decided that, having made what i thought was a fairly decent effort, i would leave the last few bits of soldering to my good friend Andy, who does have a soldering iron and knows what to do with it.
When I showed him what I had done he told me to never try to install anything ever again....apparently i had made a complete hash of it and we basically had to rip the whole thing out and give it another go. A couple of hours later (during which time i did nothing productive, but still somehow managed to burn myself playing with the soldering iron and an old pickup pot) we had some sound from the pickups but the pots that weren't doing anything. Tried a few other things before eventually turning to the internet, only to discovered that the instructions we needed were not included in the little manual that came with the pickups! Anyways with the internet instructions memorised Andy did the rest of the wiring bits and we were ready to go....except that the pickup screws included with the EMG's don't fit the Fortress.
No worries, I thought, i'll just get home, use the old screws and all will be good. Except the old screws are so rusted that I can't get them back in cause the screw driver has smoothed out the head of the screw so much it won't turn. So now i gotta go find some new pickup screws, hopefully tomorrow. Then, maybe, I'll be done!!
Hope you all enjoyed my little rant
